{"id":10026,"date":"2026-09-24T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:01:22","slug":"call-monitoring-sales-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/blog\/technology-telecoms\/call-monitoring-sales-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Call monitoring for sales teams: how to coach reps on live calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10026\" class=\"elementor elementor-10026\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eba4289 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"eba4289\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-df52ce1\" data-id=\"df52ce1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74f7c92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74f7c92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Call monitoring for sales teams: listen, whisper and coach in real time<\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-723505a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"723505a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f99c9cc\" data-id=\"f99c9cc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54ee31f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54ee31f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A prospect asks your newest rep about pricing for a team of 40. The rep isn&#8217;t sure, so they guess, put the prospect on hold or promise to &#8216;come back to you on that&#8217;. Whichever they choose, you won&#8217;t hear about it until Friday&#8217;s pipeline review, by which point the moment has long gone.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most sales coaching happens after the fact: in one-to-ones, in pipeline reviews or by working through a backlog of <a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/blog\/news\/is-it-legal-to-record-phone-calls-uk\/\">recordings<\/a>. That feedback matters, but it arrives too late to change the call that needed it. <\/span><b>Call monitoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or, in other words, <a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/call-whispering-feature\/\">Call whisper <\/a>closes the gap. It lets a sales manager listen to a conversation as it happens, give the rep a prompt only they can hear and, if really necessary, join the call outright.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This guide explains how the three live monitoring modes work, when live coaching beats reviewing recordings, a five-step approach to coaching reps mid-call without undermining them and what UK businesses need in place to do it transparently. We&#8217;ll also show how it all works in practice with Call Whisper, the live coaching feature in Onoff Business, and its two modes: Shadow and Whisper.<\/span>\n<h2><b>What is call monitoring?<\/b><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call monitoring is the practice of listening to business phone calls in order to assess and improve how they are handled. It takes two broad forms:<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Retrospective monitoring:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reviewing recorded calls after they have ended, either manually or with conversation intelligence tools that transcribe, tag and score them.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Live call monitoring:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a manager or trainer joining a call while it is still in progress, silently or otherwise.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact centres have relied on both for decades, mostly for quality assurance. What has changed is that cloud telephony has moved live monitoring out of the contact centre and onto a sales manager&#8217;s laptop or mobile. A team lead can now listen in on a discovery call from a train or a client&#8217;s reception area. That makes it a realistic, day-to-day coaching tool for sales teams of five to fifty people, rather than a QA function reserved for large call centres.<\/span>\n<h2><b>Listen, whisper, barge: the three modes of live call monitoring<\/b><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most business phone systems describe live monitoring in terms of three modes. The difference between them comes down to one question: who can hear whom?<\/span>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mode<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manager hears the call<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rep hears the manager<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer hears the manager<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best used for<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Listen<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Observing a call and gathering coaching points<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Whisper<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real-time prompts: a price, a question, a next step<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Barge<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rare moments when a senior voice genuinely needs to join<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Onoff Business, the first two modes come together in a single feature, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/call-whispering-feature\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call Whisper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: listening is Shadow mode and whispering is Whisper mode.<\/span>\n<h3><b>Listen (silent monitoring)<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also known as call listening or silent monitoring, and called Shadow mode in Onoff Business&#8217;s Call Whisper. The manager joins the call without speaking, and neither the rep nor the customer hears them.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the least glamorous mode and the most useful. In a one-to-one you get the rep&#8217;s account of how a call went; in listen mode you get the call itself. You hear which qualifying questions get skipped when the rep is nervous, how the pitch changes after the third objection and whether next steps are actually agreed or simply hoped for.<\/span>\n<h3><b>Whisper (whisper coaching)<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In whisper mode, the manager can speak to the rep while the customer continues to hear a normal conversation. It is the closest thing sales has to an earpiece: you can feed the rep a figure, a question or a next step at the moment they need it. In Call Whisper, this is Whisper mode.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One point of confusion worth clearing up: &#8216;call whisper&#8217; is also the name of an older telephony feature, a short automated message played to an agent before an inbound call connects (for example, telling them which campaign or number the caller dialled). Both features share the name, but in a sales coaching context it almost always means the manager&#8217;s voice in the rep&#8217;s ear. That is also what it means in Onoff Business: see how the two modes work on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/call-whispering-feature\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">call whisper<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feature page.<\/span>\n<h3><b>Barge (barge-in)<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call barging turns the conversation into a three-way call: the manager joins as a full participant and the customer can hear them.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use it sparingly. Every barge tells the customer that the rep needed rescuing and tells the rep that you didn&#8217;t trust them to finish the job. Not every platform offers it, and in sales coaching you will rarely miss it. If a deal genuinely needs a senior voice, a planned handover or a follow-up call from the manager usually lands far better than an unannounced interruption.<\/span>\n<h2><b>Live coaching or call recordings: when to use which<\/b><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live monitoring and call recordings are not competing options; they do different jobs.<\/span>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/features\/platform\/administration-interface\/record-calls\/\"><b>Recordings<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are best for spotting patterns. You can review calls calmly, share good examples with the wider team and let reps listen back to their own conversations. Conversation intelligence tools add a layer of analysis on top, flagging talk-to-listen ratios, recurring objections and missing next steps across hundreds of calls. The drawback is timing: by the time anyone listens, the deal has already moved on. There is also a volume problem, as few managers have time to review more than a fraction of their team&#8217;s calls.<\/span>\n\n<b>Live coaching<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> changes the outcome of the call in front of you. You see the rep under real pressure rather than in a role-play, and the feedback is immediate. The trade-off is that it costs manager time, you can only follow one call at a time and, handled badly, it can feel intrusive.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live coaching earns its place when:<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a new starter is taking their first live calls<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a deal is high-value or at a late stage<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the team is rolling out a new pitch, pricing change or product<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a rep is consistently struggling at one particular stage, such as handling objections on price<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a call is booked with a prospect you already know to be demanding<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A useful rule of thumb: use recordings to spot the pattern, live monitoring to fix it in the moment, and the debrief to make the fix stick.<\/span>\n<h2><b>How to coach sales reps during live calls: a five-step approach<\/b><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good sales call coaching on live calls is less about what you say mid-call and more about everything around it. These five steps keep the focus on development rather than surveillance.<\/span>\n<h3><b>1. Agree the rules before you join a single call<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live coaching only works if reps see it as support. Before you start, tell the whole team how it will work: that you&#8217;ll be listening to some live calls, why, and what you&#8217;ll do with what you hear.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then agree the detail with each rep individually. Ask what they would like help with. For new starters, make it clear from day one that you&#8217;ll be listening in during their first weeks. If you plan to whisper, agree the format in advance, for example: &#8216;I&#8217;ll only whisper during natural pauses, and I&#8217;ll keep it to a few words.&#8217;<\/span>\n<h3><b>2. Choose the right calls<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You cannot monitor everything, so don&#8217;t try. Pick the calls where your input is most likely to change something: discovery calls with new starters, pricing conversations, demos to key accounts and the first calls after a change of pitch.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make a point of listening to your top performers too. You will pick up phrasing and techniques worth sharing with the rest of the team, and it stops monitoring from feeling like a punishment reserved for whoever sits at the bottom of the leaderboard.<\/span>\n<h3><b>3. Listen before you whisper<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spend the first few minutes of any call in listen mode. You need context: what the prospect has already said, what the rep is building towards and how the conversation feels. A whisper that ignores that context is just noise. With Call Whisper, that means joining in Shadow mode and switching to Whisper mode only when you have something worth saying.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On most calls you join, you shouldn&#8217;t whisper at all. Keep a notepad open and jot down timestamps of the moments you want to discuss afterwards, both the strong ones and the ones that went sideways.<\/span>\n<h3><b>4. Keep every whisper short, specific and actionable<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your rep is listening to the prospect and to you at the same time. Anything longer than a short phrase competes with the customer for their attention. Whisper facts and prompts, never feedback.<\/span>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of whispering\u2026<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whisper this<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;You&#8217;re talking too much, let them speak.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Ask what&#8217;s driving their timeline.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;That pricing answer wasn&#8217;t great.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Offer the annual plan.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;You haven&#8217;t checked who else is involved.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Ask who signs off.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Try to close.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Suggest a demo on Thursday.&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;You&#8217;re doing brilliantly!&#8217;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing. Save it for the debrief.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Timing matters as much as content. Wait for a natural pause: a whisper while the prospect is mid-sentence makes the rep lose the thread of what the customer is saying. As a guide, aim for no more than one whisper per stage of the call.<\/span>\n<h3><b>5. Debrief within the hour<\/b><\/h3>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whisper fixes the call; the debrief fixes the habit. Keep it short, ten minutes is plenty, and hold it while the call is still fresh in both your minds.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A simple structure works well:<\/span>\n<ol>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask the rep how they think it went before you say anything.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Name one thing that worked and why.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agree one thing to change on the next call.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turn that change into something concrete: a question to add to their discovery script, a line to use when pricing comes up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Log the agreed change in your coaching notes or CRM so that your next one-to-one builds on it rather than starting from scratch. Over time, these debriefs become the backbone of your wider sales coaching techniques, grounded in real calls rather than hypothetical role-plays.<\/span>\n<h2><b>Six mistakes that turn live coaching into micromanagement<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n \t<li><b> Whispering too often.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you prompt every other sentence, the rep becomes a relay for your voice and stops thinking for themselves. Their confidence drops, and so does the quality of the call.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><b> Giving feedback on style mid-call.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tone, pace and filler words all matter, but a rep can&#8217;t fix them while talking to a customer. Save them for the debrief.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><b> Only monitoring your weakest performers.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It signals that live coaching is remedial, and reps will start dreading it. Spread your listening across the whole team.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><b> Monitoring without telling the team.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Nothing erodes trust faster than a rep discovering you&#8217;ve been listening in without their knowledge. In the UK, it can also put you on the wrong side of data protection law (more on that below).<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><b> Barging in to rescue deals.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Taking over a call might save the odd deal, but it costs the rep credibility with the prospect and teaches them to wait for rescue. Agree a handover instead.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><b> Skipping the debrief.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Without one, the rep leaves the call with a single correct answer rather than a new skill.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><b>Call monitoring in the UK: staying transparent and compliant<\/b><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listening to calls involves processing personal data about your employees and your customers, so UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply. The Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO) published updated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/for-organisations\/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources\/employment\/monitoring-workers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guidance on monitoring workers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in October 2023. Its core message is that monitoring should be lawful, fair and transparent, take account of workers&#8217; reasonable expectations and never be excessive.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practice, for a sales team using live call monitoring, that means:<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Identify a lawful basis.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> For coaching and quality purposes, most employers rely on legitimate interests. The ICO points out that consent is often not appropriate in an employment context, because workers may not feel free to refuse.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tell your team.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A clear monitoring policy should explain that calls may be listened to live and recorded, why, who can do it and how the information will be used.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tell your customers.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mention call monitoring and recording in your privacy notice and, on inbound lines, consider a short announcement that calls may be monitored or recorded for training purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Limit access.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Only managers with a genuine coaching role should be able to listen in.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Consider a data protection impact assessment (DPIA).<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The ICO expects one where monitoring is likely to pose a high risk to workers, and many businesses complete one as good practice when introducing live monitoring.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mind the interception rules.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Investigatory Powers (Interception by Businesses etc. for Monitoring and Record-keeping Purposes) Regulations 2018 allow businesses to monitor communications on their own systems for purposes such as checking standards, provided they have made reasonable efforts to inform the people using those systems that monitoring may take place.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This section is general information rather than legal advice. Check your approach with your data protection officer or legal adviser before rolling out call monitoring.<\/span><\/i>\n<h2><b>Call Whisper in Onoff Business: Shadow and Whisper modes<\/b><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Onoff Business, live call coaching runs through one feature: Call Whisper. It has two modes, which map directly onto the first two monitoring modes described above:<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Shadow mode<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is silent monitoring. You listen to a call in progress without the rep or the customer knowing you&#8217;ve joined, which is exactly why agreeing the ground rules with your team first matters.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Whisper mode<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lets you speak to your rep while the customer continues to hear a normal conversation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both modes run from the Live Calls tab in the admin console, on mobile and desktop, and you can switch between them mid-call. In practice, that is the five-step approach above built into one screen: join in Shadow mode, listen for context, then switch to Whisper mode when a prompt will genuinely help.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because Call Whisper works on mobile, it suits field sales managers too: you can listen in on a rep&#8217;s call between your own meetings, without needing to be at a desk. Supervision rights are set per role, so only the managers you choose can use Call Whisper, and it is available from the Advanced plan upwards.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live coaching also sits alongside the rest of your coaching workflow. Calls sync with your CRM, whether that&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/crm-hubspot\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HubSpot<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/crm-pipedrive\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pipedrive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/integration-salesforce-onoff-business\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/business.onoff.app\/en\/modjo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modjo integration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> brings conversation intelligence to your recordings. 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